Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
He was born in Kamsko-Votinsk[?], Russia, on May 7th 1840.
Selected works
- Opus 11 String Quartet No.1 in D major
- Opus 20 Swan Lake, ballet
- Opus 23 Piano Concerto No.1 in Bb major
- Opus 35 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major
- Opus 36 Symphony No.4 in F minor
- Opus 37a The Seasons
- Opus 48 Serenade for Strings in C major
- Opus 49 1812 Overture in Eb major
- Opus 58 Manfred Symphony in B minor
- Opus 59 Dumka
- Opus 64 Symphony No.5 in E minor
- Opus 66 Sleeping Beauty, ballet
- Opus 67 Hamlet Overture
- Opus 71a Nutcracker Suite
- Opus 74 Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Pathétique
Peter Tchaikovsky died in Saint Petersburg, Russia and was interred in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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to style, but with strict endeavour to form terse English lines of
thought out in Greek or Latin, some, as that on the sea-shell (on
with a translation into Latin three or four years after its first
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of the poem there were, in the nuptial voyage of Tamar, prophetic
from the Garonne to the Rhine -
Tower, to survey the triumphs that proceed.
Of larches, mid her naiads, or reclined
Of some far-distant chamois silken haired,
Finds, with your children, refuge: yonder, Rhine
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"War shall cease,
was in the first design of "Gebir," and in those early years of hope
that,
They shall o'er Europe, shall o'er earth extend
And glory that shall strike the crystal stars."
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excision. As the poem stands, it is a rebuke of tyrannous ambition
took its name. Gebir, bound by a vow to his dying father in the
yields in Egypt to the touch of love, seeks to rebuild the ruins of
learns in the purgatory of conquerors, where he sees the figures of
"with eyebrows white and slanting brow," intentionally confused with
Landor's sympathy with the French Revolution and of his contempt for
Parallel with the quenching in Gebir of the conqueror's ambition,
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